It has been three months since Prime Minister Perry Christie fired Bamboo Town MP Renward Wells as parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Works over his signing of a letter of intent (LOI) with Stellar Waste to Energy for a project at the New Providence landfill.
With the firing came no explanation.
But the firing brought the matter to a head.
Many people grew tired of hearing about it.
There was really nothing left for the media to say.
In time, it was no longer a headline.
It was not even a matter for the back pages.
But last week, Wells finally explained why he signed the LOI.
We, however, use the word "explain" warily.
There was not much of an explanation and the public is still left in the dark over a matter that dragged on since last summer.
About an hour or so before Wells told the House of Assembly last Wednesday that he signed the LOI in a bid to save the government and the people of The Bahamas millions of dollars, Christie told us that he did not see a reason why he (Christie) needed to provide any explanation on the firing.
In our discussion with the prime minister over his disappointment in several young MPs who he had expected to be the future of the PLP, the LOI matter came up.
We pointed out to the prime minister that the public was "still in the dark" months after he fired Wells.
Christie disagreed.
"I don't know that the public remains in the dark," said a straight-faced Christie.
"Enough has been said on the matter. It was a situation where in fact there is no consequence.
"In other words, he (Wells) could not influence by that document any decision.
"All of the decisions had been made, the matter was in a process involving KPMG, involving the deputy prime minister, (energy minister) Ken Dorsett and people like that on a task force and a committee.
"He (Wells) was a member of the task force, and so I didn't see that I would have been able to add anything or take anything away from it and I've made my decision to have the appointment revoked, to vacate the office and I left it there.
"And so, if the opposition brings it up I'll speak to it."
That Christie felt he could not "add anything or take anything away" from the LOI affair is concerning.
We reminded him that he had committed to providing an explanation on multiple occasions.
But Christie suggested he saw no real value in speaking to the specifics of the issue and so he left it there - up in the air.
Speaking directly of Wells' signing of the LOI, Christie admitted that he was disappointed.
"Again, that is another disappointment for me, because Wells probably was regarded by me as the brightest of the lot," Christie told National Review.
"So I think the experience was a big disappointment for me. I didn't think there was any value at the time to be going beyond my dismissal and I assumed both of us were going to speak publicly in the House at one stage to this issue. I didn't have a problem with it."
While Wells eventually spoke to the issue in the House last Wednesday, the prime minister still has not.

Lacking
Like many who have followed this matter, the opposition is not satisfied that it has been fully explained to the public.
Montagu MP Richard Lightbourn told The Nassau Guardian he found Wells' explanation lacking.
"It's ridiculous that the country spent three months being, in some degree, traumatized by this whole issue and this is the explanation we get," Lightbourn said.
"I do feel that the country would expect the prime minister to give a full story as to what transpired."
We agree with Lightbourn that the explanation was lacking.
Wells seems to be taking some kind of political gamble in raising the issue again but in obviously not going all the way.
The public has waited months for the full airing of this matter. We do not have a sense that, that has taken place.
Wells' explanation that he signed the LOI to save the government from having to spend money on conducting its own waste to energy studies indeed does seem lacking.
Many people just cannot believe that this explanation is what he held to himself for so long.
The LOI matter and the Bamboo Town MP's apparent decision not to provide a fuller explanation will likely haunt his political future.
To have raised this issue once again and then provide the explanation he provided has left us and many others wondering what he knows but still has not said.
We do not think for a moment that Wells was corrupted in the LOI process.
There is nothing about him that suggests to us that he had some financial benefit in signing the LOI.
That said, he is much too smart to think the public will accept his explanation as the end of this story.
We surmise that his explanation is a part of some political strategy he expects to play out at some point.
Wells' raising of this matter once again has also placed pressure back on Christie to speak to an issue he has long turned his back on.
But transparency is not Christie's style.
The prime minister seems misguided in his thinking that there is no reason for him to ever provide an explanation on the LOI matter.
We remain in the dark, even if he cannot see that.

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